The forthcoming introduction of generic top-level domains (gTLDs)—which will replace the .com or .net suffix with specific words or terms, such as .food, .movies, or .microsoft—poses new speculative opportunities as dizzying as those of Zola’s 19th-century Paris.

Taryn Simon’s "A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I - XVIII" traces 18 bloodlines around the world, from test rabbits in Australia to the living dead in India. In this collaboration with Art.sy Films, Simon explores the inherent ambiguities and challenges of tracing, recording, and describing lineages—what she calls “a collision of order and disorder.”